August 15, 2009
Here’s another go at it…
I was at a Sentosa party tonight, and a bunch of my classmates and I were chatting about campus activities, student clubs, and MBA life in general. We recalled something that was said to us in our orientation: “Enjoy your next year and a half as a full-time student, because you’re probably never going to get another chance at it in your life.”
And this is quite true. The reason we’re doing an MBA is not for our love of academics. We all hope to graduate, get a decent job and ascend up the corporate ladder. Most, if not all, of us will not go for another degree after this.
So what does this all mean? Not sure about the rest of my classmates, but for me it’s doing those things that I missed out on during my undergrad years. Back then it might have been due to apathy, a lack of understanding of the real world, or just focusing too hard on courses. Now I’ve given myself another go at it, at being a student again, and this time there will be no excuses. This all sounds very nice and fluffy, and I’m not known to be a theoretical pie-in-the-sky kind of guy. I’ll stop here and come back when there are concrete results to all this gibberish writing.
~Art
Junior said,
August 18, 2009 at 5:37 PM
next time you go to Sentosa, take the monorail and listen to the accented english when they say ” underwater world” it is very funny.
i miss Sentosa
arthurleung said,
August 22, 2009 at 2:47 AM
Sentosa is a nice place, albeit a bit ‘fake’, even without knowing that all the beach sand is imported. At night when you look to the south (where the ‘Southern Most Point in Continental Asia’ is), you can see allllll these oil tankers just lined up a few miles off the coast. There are so many of them, so close together, you’d think you’re looking at roads and buildings on another island. It’s trippy.
Mama said,
August 22, 2009 at 8:59 AM
So?? What are you doing that you’ve missed out in undergrad??
arthurleung said,
August 23, 2009 at 3:46 AM
Putting myself through the stresses of actually doing course work and studying.